Car crashes over a cornish cliff and lands on a beach tent

BGUK_1974267 - Padstow Coastguard requested to assist Newquay Coastguard, alongside South Western Ambulance NHS Service Trust, Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service & Devon & Cornwall Police, with a car that had landed on the beach. Initial reports of the vehicle driving off a cliff and landing on a beach tent were confirmed, however it had left the B3276 road, and dropped approximately 20ft, thankfully onto what was at the time, an empty beach tent. With no other casualties other than minor injuries on the driver only, Padstow team were then stood down. Two team members had already arrived on scene, and remained, assisting the remaining emergency services to right the car back onto its wheels, and remove it from the beach. The cause of the vehicle to leave the road is not known, but it was slow enough not to activate the on board airbags. With no medical, safety or pollution concerns, the emergency services removed various pieces of debris from the incident, and were able to depart the scene as requested. Excellent multi service operations, and an extraordinarily lucky outcome for the driver and beachgoers.